The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-12-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

crowds Of admirers in London.
The establishment Of the Des Moine.
Iowa, packing company was destroyed b
fire, causing loss of $4,000.
Mrs Margaret Kidder, of Chicago, ha
become insane by reason of taking tn
treatment of faith healer and has beel
sent to the asylum.
The prohibition party has fixed upol
the first week in June, 1888, as the tim'
and indianapolis as the place for holding
its national convention.
Sullivan and Mitchell have been match
edto fight to finish with bare knuckles
for $500 side. The date of the fight
has not yet been arranged.
The sculling race for the championship
of the world between Beach and Hanlau
took place on Nepean river, Australia, last
Saturday and was won by Beach
A rumor is published that Patti will be
unable to sing again. It is said she is now
confined to her castle in Wales and is suf-
fering from cancer of the stomach.
The residence of Carl Honikcl at Wau-
sau, Wis, burned last Saturday morning.
Honikel and his five children perished,
and his wife, who escaped, is now insane.
Jake Sharp, the New York boodler, has
been granted new trial, the court of ap-
peals having reversed the decision in the
case He has also been liberated on $780,
900 bail.
Treasurer Hyatt says that the debt
statement to be issued this afternoon will
show an increase of little more than a
million dollars in the public debt since
November 1st.
Two freight trains on the Bal timore s.
Ohio railroad collided fifteen miles from
Pittsburg last Friday, killing three men
and injuring five others. Both trains were
demolished.
The bodies of Jno. H. Gowan and his
l6-year- old daughter were found frozen
tiff at their home in Huron, Dakota, Tues
lay morning. From appearances they
lad first suffocated from coal gas.
The anarchist defense committee has
selected plot of ground in Waldhern
cemetery, near Chicago, in which to bury
he five dead anarchists. The plot con-
aims about 5000 square feet Of ground.
The governor of Culiacan, Mexico, has
,ffered a reward of $4,000 for the cap
ure of the bandit Eraclio Bernai He
las ruined and almost depopulated many
districts in San Ignacio, and his terrible
nassacres are known throughout the re-
public.
Ninety-fve cigar factories of Havana
ave shut down owing to the demands of
he cigar makers for an increase in wages.
l committee appointed by the manufac |
urers will try to arbitrate the matter.
About $4,000 persons are thrown out of
by the shut down.
At Redwood, CAL, R. S. Smith, editor
f the Times Gazette, was seriously shot
n Tuesday by DR.. L. E. Powell, brother
t T. E. Powell, the democratic can
idate for governor of Ohio at the last
lection. The shooting grew out of the
ublication by Smith Of an article charg-
1g Powell with having defrauded widow.
The jury in the case of the California
re insurance company against the Lam
ert s. Bishop wire fence company, OF
oliet, ILL.,, to recover insurance losses
hich the company had paid but which
endeavored to recover on the ground of
,cendiarism. returned verdict for de-
,ndants.
While the body of a young colored
oman was being conveyed to the GENE
ry at Columbia, s. c., last Saturday, a
oise from the coffin caused an investiga-
on and it was found that the supposed
cad woman was alive, though uncon-
ious, and had just given birth to child.
he funeral was indefinitely postponed.
[other and child are doing we'll.
An explosion Of boiler in the Kirby
,use at Milwaukee, Monday, blew out one
the walls of the hotel, burying twelve
the waiter girls and two cooks beneath
'e debris. Two girls and one of the
,oks were killed outright, and the others
severely injured that it is uncertain
hcther any can recover. The accident
as caused by the freezing of feed pipe.
At Grand Junction, Colorado, on Sun
nv, Chinaman named Lee Shung, arm
/ with knife, ran amuck among the
assengers on the west-bound Denver y
10 Grande train. He was finally shot and
stantly killed by Brakeman Canning,
nt MT until he had fatally cut DaSSen-
er named George Heckbridge. The
hinaman is supposed to have been
aniac.
The commissioners appointed at the last
sslon Of congress to select site for a